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A Dallas County judge reduced the amount awarded to a family to $208 million after finding that manufacturer defects in the family’s Lexus ES 300 caused two children to sustain serious and permanent injuries during a rear-end collision in September…

Jaguar Land Rover #8212; hit hard by trade tensions between China and the U.S.

Stronger-than-expected results in China and North America propelled General Motors to a 25 percent increase in pretax profit in the third quarter and net income of $2.5 billion.

Ford and Baidu launched a two-year project to test self-driving vehicles on Chinese roads, amid a global race by carmakers and technology firms to develop autonomous vehicles and the software that runs them.

A push on Capitol Hill to speed development of self-driving vehicles may not cross the finish line in time for this Congress #8212; casting doubt on the future of unusually bipartisan legislation in Washington.

Volkswagen could be open to sharing its new electric vehicle platform with Ford as the automaker seeks to establish partnerships to share development costs.

Mazda slumped into the red in the most recent quarter, broadsided by falling global sales, suspended production in Japan, unfavorable foreign exchange rates and increased investment in its U.S. retail network reforms.

Some 2,200 years after Hannibal crossed the Alps to invade Italy using an army of African war elephants, FCA’s Mopar brand is unleashing the Hellephant — a giant, supercharged 1,000-hp crate engine it intends to sell next year and is capable of…

Alphabet’s Waymo unit on Tuesday became the first company to receive a permit from California to test driverless vehicles without a backup driver in the front seat, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said.

Tesla is accused in a lawsuit of misleading consumers into believing that the Autopilot system on its cars can safely transport passengers at highway speeds.